Posts Tagged ‘google’

Still no Google Chrome for Linux -> byebye Chrome for me

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Google, while not doing any evil and supporting open source and all, is really screwing up it’s browser by simply only providing a decent build for window, even in with it’s latest 2.0 pre-beta (whatever the hell that might mean, where are the days when an alpha was an alpha build and a beta was a beta)

We all should have known this would be the case, it’s a company and in the end, the numbers are against us linux users. Who cares if a substantial part of the tech community runs linux or apple, it’s a browser for the end user!

This little joyride has gone on long enough, back to firefox, opera and some konqueror for me. Really looking forward to firefox 3.1 by the way, native ogg theora support and omg-faster-than-chrome-javascript!

I should have known that ‘comic’ looked too neat for an app targeting linux + not that I could live without my firefox extensions anyways :-)

So, although I’ve used and not especially dislike chrome, getting stuck on a single platform browser is the last of my intentions. Uninstalled baby!

Google Chrome Beta released

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

It really is!

If it’s half as good as the comic it’s gonna be nice.

UPDATE: okay, it is nice. 

Google don’t do no evil, literally

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Actually got this through Slashdot (where else!):

Hit Pause On The Evil Button: Google Assists In Arrest Of Indian Man

I can see how the companies need to choose to oppose local governments on this, which granted isn’t a small thing to do, but thinking of why this man was arrested and the role google played any understanding has quickly faded away to make place for a combination of disappointment, injustice, all-they-need-is-money and so on.

I suppose google fears being banned from India, a country which obviously has more than a slight interest in keeping google active there.

I wish acts like these would cost a company more than just some bad PR. Then again I’ve been wishing for the music industry to see the light for years now.

Closing words to google : for shame!!